“Dark Money,” “Free Solo,” “Minding the Gap,” “The Silence of Others” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” have been nominated for the top film award at the International Documentary Association’s 2018 IDA Documentary Awards, the IDA announced on Wednesday.

Those five films will be joined in the feature category by another five: “Crime + Punishment,” “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” “Of Fathers and Sons,” “Sky and Ground” and “United Skates.”

The 10 IDA Documentary Awards feature nominees is the largest number ever nominated in the category, which has typically consisted of five films. Half of the films were directed by women.

Missing from the list are a few of the most successful docs of the year, including “RBG,” “Three Identical Strangers” and “Fahrenheit 11/9.”

In the television categories, nominees include “American Masters,” “POV” and “Independent Lens” in Curated Series, “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” and “Christiane Amanpour: Love & Sex Around the World” in Episodic Series and “Bobby Kennedy for President,” “Flint Town” and “Wild Wild Country” in Limited Series.

“A Modern Man,” “Bathtubs Over Broadway,” “MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A,” “Mr. SOUL!” and “Whitney” were nominated in the Music Documentary category.

The IDA Documentary Awards also announced winners in four creative recognition categories: “Distant Constellation” for music, “Minding the Gap” for editing, “The Other Side of Everything” for writing and a tie between “Bisbee ’17” and “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” for music.

“The Silence of Others” will receive the Pare Lorentz Award, while Chicken & Egg Pictures will receive the Amicus Award and director Stephen Maing and the NYPD12 whistleblowers will receive the Courage Under Fire Award.

The IDA’s Career Achievement Award will go to Julia Reichert, while the Emerging Filmmaker Award will go to Bing Liu.

15 Top Grossing Documentaries at the Box Office, From 'Monkey Kingdom' to 'Sicko' (Photos)

Documentaries are rarely big money makers, but they can have the power to influence change and motivate people to action in a way narrative films cannot. So when a documentary does make a splash at the box office, it's an even bigger surprise. This list of the Top 15 grossing documentaries ever is an interesting mix of political, nature and concert docs, and several of them likewise went on to win Oscars and critical acclaim. All numbers are domestic totals via Box Office Mojo.

15. "Bears" (2014) - $17.7 million

You'll see a lot of Disneynature documentaries on this list. In "Bears," John C. Reilly narrates this look at an Alaskan bear family.

Michael Moore's provocative documentary about American gun violence (and one of his best) won the Oscar for Best Documentary and even broke international box office records for a documentary in 2002.

United Artists

12. "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" (2018) - $22.6 million

Morgan Neville's portrait of Fred Rogers and "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" proved to be a crowd-pleasing hit in the summer of 2018 because of the absolute niceness at its heart. Neville in his film explains that Fred Rogers was the rare person who really did not have a dark side, and in "Won't You Be My Neighbor?," it shows.

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11. "An Inconvenient Truth" (2006) - $24.1 million

Davis Guggenheim's documentary spotlighting Al Gore's plea to alert the world to the effects of global warming and climate change went on to win two Oscars and earn a sequel.

Paramount Classics

10. "Sicko" (2007) - $24.5 million

Another Michael Moore movie to crack the list, "Sicko" was Moore's look at the healthcare industry in America compared to other nations, with Moore sailing sick veterans down to Cuba to receive care they couldn't receive at home.

Lionsgate

9. "Katy Perry: Part of Me" (2012) - $25.3 million

The 2012 concert movie followed Katy Perry on her California Dreams World Tour.

Paramount Pictures

8. "One Direction: This is Us" (2013) - $28.8 million

Morgan Spurlock directed this concert doc about the then wildly popular British boy group.

TriStar

7. "Chimpanzee" (2012) - $28.9 million

Tim Allen narrated this Disneynature doc about a three-month old chimp separated from his flock and adopted by another grown male.

Disneynature

6. "Earth" (2007) - $32 million

The first of Disneynature's documentaries, "Earth" was a theatrical version of the popular TV miniseries "Planet Earth" from 2006. "Earth" finally got its theatrical release stateside in 2009.

Disneynature

5. "2016: Obama's America" (2012) - $33.4 million

Dinesh D'Souza's anti-Obama documentary speculated about where the country would be if Obama won a second term in office in 2012.

Rocky Mountain Pictures

4. "Michael Jackson's This Is It" (2009) - $72 million

The footage in "This Is It" comes from a behind-the-scenes look at preparation for Michael Jackson's final planned tour, which was cancelled in the wake of his death. It wasn't originally meant to be made into a film, but it provided an intimate look at Jackson in his final days.

Sony

3. "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never" (2011) - $73 million

The Biebs holds the spot for the highest grossing concert film ever and the documentary with the biggest opening weekend of all time.

Paramount Pictures

2. "March of the Penguins" (2005) - $77.4 million

People sure love penguins. Morgan Freeman narrates the nature documentary that opened on just four screens but soon spread into a nationwide hit.

National Geographic Films

1. "Fahrenheit 9/11" (2004) - $119.1 million

Michael Moore's scathing documentary about President Bush and the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks is the highest grossing documentary of all time and it isn't even close. The film won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and then sparked massive controversy ahead of its release that only boosted its notoriety. Opening at over $23 million, the movie at the time opened higher than any other documentary had ever grossed in its lifetime. Moore followed up the film with a documentary about the 2016 election and Donald Trump, the cleverly titled "Fahrenheit 11/9."

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Michael Moore, Disneynature and several concert films top the list

Documentaries are rarely big money makers, but they can have the power to influence change and motivate people to action in a way narrative films cannot. So when a documentary does make a splash at the box office, it's an even bigger surprise. This list of the Top 15 grossing documentaries ever is an interesting mix of political, nature and concert docs, and several of them likewise went on to win Oscars and critical acclaim. All numbers are domestic totals via Box Office Mojo.

Steve Pond, awards editor at TheWrap, is also author of the L.A. Times bestseller The Big Show. He has been covering entertainment for more than two decades, and is the industry's most knowledgeable Academy Awards prognosticator.